[Incubator] Fwd: Proposing a new OSGeo Community project: Blink Raster

[Landon Blake]

I'd like to make a motion that we accept Blink Raster as an OSGeo Community
Project. I'm willing to help Alex, the project lead, work through some of
the first steps to getting set-up, and will also try to help him market the
project to potential users/contributors a bit. This shouldn't be too
bad...as I'm not actively mentoring any projects right now. :]

Landon

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 7:46 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sounds good, I checked the repo when Alex first asked on discuss - so I
> would feel comfortable giving him the go ahead to make an OSGeo project
> page right away.
>
> Indeed I would be okay with any incubation committee member performing
> that spot check and giving projects the go ahead to make a project page.
>
> As for being an OSGeo project, see other email thread for some additional
> ideas (devs require no-dumping, No API key required). I also think we could
> ask osgeo projects to check their file headers, in addition to having a
> license file. Finally we should make a motion since being an OSGeo
> community project has some standing in or organization (including the
> ability to ask this committee for budget requests).
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 7:36 PM Landon Blake <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey guys. I think the project submitted by Alex meets our criteria for an
>> OSGeo Community Project. (See the message from Alex below.) It has an open
>> source license, is geospatial, and accepts contributions.
>>
>> Are there any objections to accepting it as a Community Project?
>>
>> If there are no discussions, I'll give some thought to a simple process
>> to get Community Projects set-up. (Add a wiki page, get a mailing list, do
>> a little marketing...) Then I'll ask Alex some more questions about his
>> project.
>>
>> Let me know if you have comments or questions.
>>
>> Landon
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: <a.hagen-zanker at surrey.ac.uk>
>> Date: Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 2:56 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Incubator] Proposing a new OSGeo Community project: Blink
>> Raster
>> To: incubator at lists.osgeo.org
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> Apologies if you received this message already. I sent a message last
>> week that made it to the list archive (http://lists.osgeo.org/
>> pipermail/incubator/2018-January/003475.html), but apparently not to all
>> email inboxes.
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to propose my open source library as an OSGeo Community
>> project. The library is called Blink Raster and it is a C++ library aimed
>> at efficient raster processing using basic and modern C++ idioms.  The
>> library is based on my experience of developing Cellular Automata land use
>> models, map comparison methods, neutral models and geostatistics for raster
>> data. I would think that the primary users will be researchers in the field
>> of environmental modelling, who require more flexibility than offered by
>> GIS packages and more efficiency than offered by script based libraries.
>> However, the functionality is quite fundamental, so who knows where it may
>> be useful.
>>
>>
>>
>> I think I meet all the requirements for a Community project. I still lack
>> a community though J. I will introduce the library at FOSDEM 2018 and
>> submitted an abstract for the FOSS4G UK 2018. in March.
>>
>>
>>
>> The project is hosted on Github: www.github.com/ahhz/raster
>>
>>
>>
>> I am quite open as to whether this should formally be an OSGeo Community
>> project or just a project listed  on the website. I believe the library is
>> at a stage now where it can be useful to people and can be used within
>> other projects. The reason for reaching out to the OSGeo community is to
>> find users, get feedback and potentially find collaborators.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you for taking this into consideration, I’ll be happy to hear from
>> you.
>>
>>
>>
>> With kind regards, Alex
>>
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